Oddest thing your child ever did:) | Autism PDD
We have a 2 storey family room and my daughter would stare at the ceiling and the recessed lights but not just stare she would giggle and make hereself giddy giggling.... almost like she was having this funny conversation with the lights!
She does that at times tho we have stopped using recessed lights - bec the min thy turn on, she goes into this wild fascination mode!
She walks on the TOPS of her toes. All the toes curl under and then she goes--about 5 steps before she has to right them. He was three and we had a preschool friend over. He completly imitated
her every move (kind of like echoholia with movement) it was completly
bizarre and erie. During the same playdate he fell of the couch with his
nose on the table. He did cry for 10 seconds and then went back to
imitating her - the next day his face was green and blue and four years
later he stll has a scar accross his nose.
But reading this what is really bizarre is that he did not get diagnosed
until he was almost seven.
Ok - not sure if this classifies as the oddest but it's certainly the funniest...
When the boys were 3, I left them alone in the family room watching TV while I went to the other part of the house to handle a work phone call. When I came back they were stark naked, standing on the coffee table, and peeling bananas and tossing them up into the ceiling fan and watching them go splat-splat on my ceiling. (We have 16 foot ceilings in the family room so they were really hurling them up there!)
The oddest thing for Zach was when he was 3 ,my oldest son Allan was visiting ,Zachary always had a connection to him and couldn't wait for him to get up in the morning.
One morning I was walking down the hall with zach,as we were passing Allan's bedroom door Allan called his name , He looked at me with a smile and i walked over to the bedroom door and opend it,Allan was lying on his back and put up his head when we opened the door, Zachary freaked!!!!!,he screamed for 10 min straight ,we are still not sure why!!
Linda
The sensory part is weird and the change of stimms periodicaly is scary.Only eating Tuna & Brocolli for 2 years, Thats what he ate for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack. We also had to call him by a different name for a long time or he would have a meltdown. He still likes it when we call him Admiral, or Commamder, and responds better to commands when we call him that. Trying to eat his own poo. That was a bad on and he also liked to wipe it on the furniture. These are just a few.Unfortunately, my niece, Kiara who is 15, is usually the one that walks into my sons strange moments. One day my sister (she takes care of him for me after school) took my son, Robert who is 13, with her to her daughters school. She needed to pick up some paperwork. She parked and my sister and her daughter both went into the office. It was taking longer than expected, so my sister asked Kiara to go and check on him. Well, to her horror he had rolled down the window, lifted his shirt and was checking out his newly found nipples while watching himself in the passenger side rear view mirror. All she could think of was that someone might see him and she would be ridiculed forever (typical teen).
That will teach them to leave him along won't it?
I like the donut with sprinkles thingI remember this one 3-nearly-4-year-old at the preschool I worked at who was nonverbal because he had some sort of speech impediment and could not form any words with his tongue. However he was fairly smart cognitively, and so when he needed to tell you something he would act out a charade to get you to guess what he was trying to say. When you would get it right he would emphatically nod his head.
My favorite charade he ever did was one time he came up to me pouting and holding his hand. I asked him what happened. He then walked over to one of the other kids and pointed at him. Then he took his hurt hand and put it under his own shoe. Then he pointed at the kid again and held his hurt hand. I said, "Did he step on your hand?" He then gave a very forlorn nod and extended his hurt hand to me as if to say "kiss it." I told him I didn't want to kiss it but I think it'll be OK in a minute. He then mumbled something that vaguely resembled "Okay" and went back to playing.
I was just reading the stims posts and it got me thinking about some of the odd things my child did and thinking back to the ONE thing that really disturbed me and made me think " Oh my God that is not normal!"
....they are several of them but that comes to mind wasat the beginning of summer going to the pool for the first time...I was putting in one toe at a time screaming on how cold it was and Sarah jumped right in with no reaction at all
She did many things like this that made me freak out but this one comes to mind right now for some reason?
Specific things like a gflower on my outfit will make him lean towards it and twirl his arms around it and make oooooo soundIts like he is seeing something I am not
hmmm, ya i dont have kids but i ask my parents questions sometimes i have latly really wanted to understand more about how i was when little and wanna kinda deal with my autism by understanding it from their point of veiw while in your similar situation cause i was that age then too and so uhh i guess my main problems that made them think to ask whats wrong with me were i would not look up at their face and i would instead of sleep lie in bed rocking most of the night, not talk for a while, not socialize at all, be lonly, and i guess thats all i can think of. I wish i knew what my reaction was the first time i jumped in a pool but im pretty sure if the water was cold i would reacted somehow myaby ill ask my parents and see if they can remember maby thats common maby notThe eerie thing that jumps out for me is when they were toddlers or maybe younger, and I remember Abigail was sitting in her high chair and I was trying to get her attention (she was paying attention to something on her tray). I called her name several times, no response. I yelled her name, no response. I was cooking at the time, so I took a pan and a spoon and clanged them together loudly right behind her and she did not even flinch. I remember getting this panicky kind of strange sensation, and I just yelled her name loudly and she finally responded by startling and crying, but she still didn't look back at me.
I think one of the weirder things my son does is roll EVERYTHING up his belly diagonally (I think it's a visual stim). He does it with anything he has in his hands. He does it with his hands to.
Another thing that's kinda creepy is he loves bellies. He'll lift your shirt and put his hands and face on your belly...he'll rub his belly on yours and my poor dog's belly. He loves squishing it. Strange!
For us, it was the tantrums. 6 hour long tantrums---was not normal!! Also him not responding to discipline the way a normal kid should.
At 3yo---asking for a donut with sprinkles at 8pm. I told him no--we don't have one and the store is closed. Instead of his normal fit throwing rage---he quietly walked away and the next thing I knew---my older kids were telling me he was outside with my car keys, getting ready to drive. He told me he was getting a donut with sprinkles!! Then the rage came, after he threw the keys at my head!
Lots more to tell. But the 6 hour tantrum was the main one when I realized something was not right!!
There are a couple odd things that jump out. one was last 4th of July we were at a gfs house..Rissa was not Diagnosed yet but this made us seriously question her hearing. It started to get dark and the neighbors Right next door were setting off fireworks..They were sooo loud even I jumped but Rissa was laying on the ground spinning a toy and didnt look up or so much as flinch. One of his first clear symptoms was repeating a phrase 100 times a day for a few weeks, but it disappeared before we considered asking a professional about it. He was 2 at the time. This repetitive phase returned a year later, and disappeared for several years. Fast forward to first grade, and he suddenly started repeating "no owie on me" under his breath and spitting -- like to ward off a curse. This happened in school and at home, and he even said it 25 times while watching a half-hour kids show. It freaked me out a little, but luckily went away in a couple weeks. We couldn't wait to get off the hospital's waiting list and in to a professional who could get him evaluated and diagnosed. When T was in diapers, she had one stim I ever knew of ... one time I gave her a diaper to hold and she turned it, overandoverandover, for about 5 minutes. I think she was about 3 then. I thought she was brilliantly looking at it with an artist's eye (and perhaps I was right of course). She was dx'd at 6. Turned out, her daycare teachers had always given her a clean diaper to play with, while they were changing her. Just had not bothered to tell us. We were so open-minded. Maybe a little TOO open-minded, about her. But considering who her docs and therapists were then, we would not have gotten a dx, anyhow. Water under the bridge. And she IS doing
For my daughte, she was nearly 3 and she would touch yellow lines on the ground and say "lellow". Even now at 5 1/2 she sometimes touchses squares on the supermarket floor or lines in th parking lots. That was what made me realise she could be on the spectrum too. I love the story of the naked banana tossing...sounds kind of fun if you don't have to clean it up afterwards. Liz Stupid is the "S" word, in my house ... all three of mine use it on each other, ALL the time. And all b/c of of ONE little boy, teaching it to T's entire preschool class ... (HE, of course, has gone on to private school, where HE is learning multiplication tables, in KG ... GRRRRRRUMBLE
If I try to distract him he throws a tantrum - sometimes it easier to deal with the tantrum than people wondering why your child is trying to hump a teaset/doll/truck etc.
Mysh i forgot about the elbow fetish--Jaden once went up to an older lady and sucked on her elbow skin
Ya gotta laugh or you will cry
. Anything with heels....He won't wear them or anything, but loves to "hammer" with them. He will even put them in his mouth.
nakama
There are so many odd moments with this child! RIght now there is a bridge blocking a doorway made out of books ( 3 feet wide and 3 1/2 feet tall). One instance that really stands out when she was 2 years old, we went to the beach with some friends. There was a small estuary running to the ocean and my dd took a small (2 ft long) forked stick and she was waving it over the water while chanting. Remember that she was mostly nonverbal at this point. She kept this up for 15 to 20 minutes. My friends decided that she had to have been a shaman in a past life.
Then when I would read to him, he would repeat the book back to himself, word for word, while drifting off to sleep. This has always amazed me. That's my story!
Paddy's MomI think that the one of the oddest things vannah has ever said or done was last halloween, she was dressed as a crocodile, and she had done great...and was having a ball, but we got to one house...and the woman handing out the candy, looked at her and said Who are you, are you a crocodile...and savannah looked at her with all seriousness and said "NO STUPID I'M SAVANNAH and THIS IS PRETEND...
Whe he was younger he would count , one, two, fomthree, four, etc. the "fom" disapeared shortly after he started LEAP preschool.Of all of my son's predilictions, the one that gets me the most is when I whistle. He says, "Daddy, Don't whistle". We were on a Ferris Wheel at a carnival today and I inadvertently inhaled and whistled at the same time. Ty automatically turned to me and said, "Daddy, No Whistle". I do not know why this ticks him off. My wife can whistle all that she wants to and Ty is cool with it. Why Me?One of Parker's strange things is that he doesn't like me until I change out of my pjs and get dressed. He also likes to tap the t.v. a lot.
Copyright Autism-PDD.net